Anoush Bargamian

What draws me in and gives me pause in the natural world is the raw, rough, and sublime. Out of that experience comes the creation of works that are simultaneously provocative, gorgeous, and at times terrifying.
—Anoush Bargamian


Anoush Bargamian (b.1963, Providence, Rhode Island) is a Chicago-based artist. She earned an MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1990.

Bargamian’s work is inspired by the history of abstraction, her Armenian-American identity, nature, Art Brut, memories, etc. The additive/subtractive process she uses creates highly textured surfaces. Materials in Bargamian’s work include paint, beeswax, soil, threads, etc.

Her works are in private collections and have been exhibited in galleries and museums.

1993 BFA/University of Illinois-Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

1990 MFA/The School of the Art Institute of Chicago,
Chicago, Illinois

1987 BFA/Massachusetts College of Art, Boston,
Massachusetts

Selected Exhibitions

2023 Alma Art & Interiors, Third Fridays, Chicago, IL

2022 Alma Art & Interiors, Threaded Together, Chicago, IL

2021 Gallery/Studio Z, Armenian Artists from Around the World
Exhibit, Warwick, RI

2020 Lubeznik Center for the Arts, Well-Behaved
Women: Celebrating 100 Years of Women's
Suffrage, Michigan City, IN

2020 Gallery Z, Armenian Artists from Around the World
Exhibit, Providence, RI

2020 Gallery Z, Armenian Genocide Exhibit, Providence,
RI

2020 The Art Center Highland Park, Collaboration,
Highland Park, IL

2020 Bridgeport Art Center, Chicago Women’s Caucus
for Art Exhibition, 2020 Vision, Bridgeport, IL

2019 Chicago Printmakers Collaborative, 30th Annual
International Small Print Exhibition, Chicago, IL

2019 Woman Made Gallery, Small Works Member’s
Show, Chicago, IL

2019 Mana Contemporary, THE OTHER ART FAIR,
Chicago, IL

2019 Gallery Z, Abstract, Conceptual, & Multimedia Art,
Providence, RI

2019 Women Made Gallery, Midwest Open, Chicago, IL

2018 Woman Made Gallery, Small Works Member’s
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